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NCCI Official Predicts Higher Costs for S.C. Workers’ Compensation
Feb 8 2006 // South Carolina’s workers’ compensation costs promise to be much larger than the 12.7 percent suggested by Martin Simmons, the Consumer Advocate’s actuarial witness and according to Peter M. Burton, NCCI...
Off-the-Job Worker Injuries Outpacing Safety Gains, National Council Says
Feb 8 2006 // Contrary to popular belief, today’s workers are safer on the job than they are at home or in their communities. According to the National Safety Council, recent gains in lowering workplace death rates, which are down...
Best Affirms FSR for New Zealand’s Accident Compensation Corp.
Feb 6 2006 // A.M. Best Co. has affirmed the financial strength rating of A+ (Superior) and assigned an issuer credit rating (ICR) of “aa” to Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) (New Zealand). The outlook for both...
WASH. REPORTS 79 WORKERS DIED ON THE JOB
Feb 6 2006 // Seventy-nine workers died on the job in Washington in 2005, down from 93 in 2004, and 112 fatal workplace injuries in 1998, the state Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) reported. According to L&I, the most...
Managing Your Agency
Feb 5 2006 // For smaller companies, such as small and medium sized insurance agencies, outsourcing can be a valuable, even critical tool to facilitate cost-effective growth and stimulate productivity. Outsourcing often receives a bad...
Compensation overall
Feb 5 2006 // Last year was not a big year for raises in independent insurance agencies as salaries in many agencies across the county stayed right where they were in 2004. Producer commission rates stayed the same also. More than 1,000...
2005 Agency Salary Survey
Feb 5 2006 // President/ Office Sales Accounting Personal Commercial Marketing Agency Total P/C Premium Volume CEO Manager Manager Manager Lines Mgr. Lines Mgr. Manager Revenue 2005 Average Salary $93,468...
Aon Construction Group Appoints White Managing Director in San Francisco
Feb 1 2006 // Aon Construction Services Group has appointed Cary White managing director. He will be responsible for producing and managing insurance accounts for both contractors and homebuilders, and be based in San Francisco. White...
AIA ‘Takes Issue’ With S.C. Workers’ Compensation Story
Jan 30 2006 // The American Insurance Association (AIA) takes issue with the AP article that appeared on Insurance Journal’s Web site Jan. 30, for it shows once again the extent to which opponents of workers’ compensation...
Wash. Reports 79 Workers Died on the Job in 2005
Jan 30 2006 // Seventy-nine workers died on the job in Washington in 2005, the Department of Labor and Industries (L&I) said. That’s down from 93 the year before. The most common cause of death was motor vehicle accidents,...
MetLife Study: Almost One-Quarter of Workers Changed Jobs Last Year
Jan 30 2006 // With nearly one-quarter (22 percent) of all employees changing jobs over the past 18 months — and 74 percent of businesses expecting competition for talent to escalate over the next 18 months...
EPI Study Says Premium Jumps Mean Job Loss for Low-Skilled Employees
Jan 24 2006 // A study released Tuesday by the Employment Policies Institute (EPI) reveals that as the cost of insurance premiums rise, pressure on businesses to keep labor costs in check results in job loss and involuntary part-time...
W.Va. claimant pleads guilty of workers’ compensation fraud
Jan 23 2006 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of...
Workers’ compensation reform tops PCI’s legislative agenda in S.C.
Jan 23 2006 // Comprehensive reform of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system, including repeal of the Second Injury Fund are top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during...
“Lighting Up” Could Mean Looking for Another Job
Jan 20 2006 // The trend to institute smoking bans in public buildings, restaurants and other areas may be taking a giant leap right forward right into the work arena. Scotts Miracle Grow has announced to its employees that after a grace...
Swiss Re Plans GE Job Cuts
Jan 20 2006 // While Swiss Re and General Electric are working to close the sale of GE Insurance Solutions, it seems that less GE employees will be working at all when the deal is completed. Swiss Re indicated on Wednesday, Jan. 18, that...
Higginbotham & Associates Adds New Managing Directors
Jan 18 2006 // Independent insurance agency Higginbotham & Associates, based in Fort Worth, Texas, added brokers John Huggins and Mark Vann to its managing director team to recognize their individual sales production of $1 million...
Study: 7% of American Workers Drink on the Job
Jan 13 2006 // Just over seven percent of American workers drink during with workday, mostly at lunch, and even more, nine percent, have nursed a hangover in the workplace, according to a study. Young, single men are tied most often to...
N.D. Employers to Receive $46M in Workers’ Compensation Premiums
Jan 13 2006 // For the 2005-06 premium year, North Dakota employers are reportedly enjoying the benefits of an estimated $46 million in premium dividend credits from Workforce Safety & Insurance (WSI), the state’s...
S.C. Gov. Sanford, PCI, Emphasize Workers’ Compensation Reform
Jan 13 2006 // The effort to implement comprehensive reform of the South Carolina workers’ compensation system took important steps forward this week as legislation was filed in the House and Senate and Gov. Mark Sanford expressed...
